I Don't Do A Comic Book Thinking

It's One Thing To Be Sitting At A Drawing Board, Alone In Your Home And Coming Up With A Fantasy Character, And Drawing Her Whichever Way You Feel Like Drawing, Then Dealing With A Real Performer. All Of A Sudden, Things Change. It's Amazing, In Working With Actors, How Much I Learn From Them And How Many New Lines Will Come To Mind Because Of Their Personality Or Their Strengths.

Working With The Kind Of Talent That I've Gotten To Work With, Like The Cast Of Sin City, It Makes Me Think Probably More Fully Dimensionally About What Is Going On Behind Their Eyes. But I Draw The Way I Draw, And Ain't Nothing Gonna Change That. Although, I Draw Marv And I Think, "boy, I Could Throw A Little Mickey [rourke] In There."

Alfred: Hmf. I Suppose You'll Take Up Flying Next, Like That Fellow In Metropolis.

"comic Book" Has Come To Mean A Specific Genre, Not A Story Form, In People's Minds. So Someone Will Call Die Hard "a Comic-book Movie," When It Has Nothing To Do With Comic Books. I'd Rather Have Comics Be The Vehicle By Which Stories Are Told.

This Should Be Agony. I Should Be A Mass Of Aching Muscle - Broken, Spent, Unable To Move. And, Were I An Older Man, I Surely Would ... ... But I'm A Man Of Thirty - Of Twenty Again. The Rain On My Chest Is A Baptism - I'm Born Again.